Reflexes Quotes

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And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes… — Jacky Ickx
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense… — Terry Eagleton
How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes. — Bill Gates
Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away. — Kenneth Keating
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'… — C. Wright Mills
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the… — Francis Schaeffer
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines)… — Guy Davenport
For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, eachÂ reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine… — Edgar Cayce
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. — W. Edwards Deming
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. — G. Stanley Hall
I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put… — Pete Newell
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdalaâ€â€”the home of the fight-or-flight reflexâ€”â€œis as limiting as saying that my personality… — Scott Stossel
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions,… — George Steiner
Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations… — Wilhelm Wundt
It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again… — Marge Piercy
If you could have the arms of Hercules, legs as swift as the wind. If you could leap shoulder high above the rim, have the… — Andrea Bocelli
If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration.… — Unknown Author
Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, â€œI have sinned.â€ The surest sign that God is at work in his life is… — Oswald Chambers
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them. — Timothy Leary
My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive. — Robert Breault

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